ENERGY-CLIMATE WORKS TRAINING

Amends the Energy Transition Act. Provides that Climate Works Hubs shall be awarded grants in multi-year increments not to exceed 36 months with the opportunity for grant renewal and modification for subsequent years. Provides that each Climate Works Hub that receives funding from the Energy Transition Assistance Fund shall: recruit, prescreen, and provide preapprenticeship training to equity investment eligible persons; provide training information related to opportunities and certifications relevant to clean energy jobs in the construction and building trades; and provide preapprentices with stipends not less than the State minimum wage unless a higher wage is required by the locality where the preapprenticeship training program is situated. Provides that priority shall be given to Climate Works Hubs that have an agreement with North American Building Trades Union to utilize the Multi-Craft Core Curriculum or successor curriculums. Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Provides that projects less than or equal to 25 kilowatts on the waitlist for this capacity that are moved to the waitlist for the first block of annual capacity shall not be required to be in compliance with the Agency's long-term renewable resources plan. Removes language that provides that projects that were on the waitlist for the first block of annual capacity prior to the opening of the next block are not required to be in compliance with the Agency's long-term renewable resources plan. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 3855/1-75 Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/5-117 220 ILCS 5/16-108.30 220 ILCS 5/16-111.11 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Removes a provision of the Illinois Power Agency Act concerning the Planning and Procurement Bureau. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that the annual report in the provisions concerning supplier diversity goals shall include a buying plan for the specific goods and services the company intends to buy in the next 6 to 18 months. Provides that the energy transition assistance charge shall not exceed 1.3% of the amount paid per kilowatthour by eligible retail customers during the year ending May 31, 2009. Provides that specified entities shall submit an annual supplier diversity report to the Illinois Commerce Commission. Provides that the annual report shall be filed on an electronic form as designed by the Commission by June 1, 2023 and every June 1 thereafter on all procurement goals and actual spending for women-owned businesses, minority-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, and small business enterprises in the previous calendar year related to performance of obligations in the State of the contracts of licenses. Provides the relevant information that shall be included in the annual report. Provides that each annual report: shall include as much State-specified data as possible; shall include the rules, regulations, and definitions used for the procurement goals; and shall be submitted to the Commission. Provides that the Commission shall not be required or authorized to compel production of any specified report. Provides that the Commission shall hold an annual workshop in 2024 and every year thereafter on the state of supplier diversity, and the Commission shall invite all entities submitting an annual report. Provides that the Commission shall publish a database on its website of the point of contact for each participating entity for supplier diversity. Makes other changes. House Floor Amendment No. 4 Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/8-218 220 ILCS 5/16-107.6 220 ILCS 5/16-108.5 415 ILCS 5/9.15 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the engrossed bill and makes the following changes. In the Public Utilities Act, provides that Climate Works Hub shall be awarded grants in multi-year increments not to exceed 36 months and removes a provision that provides that this shall be with the opportunity for grant renewal and modification for subsequent years. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may take into account experience and performance as a previous grantee of the Climate Works Hub as part of the selection criteria for subsequent years. Provides that each Climate Works Hub that receives funding from the Energy Transition Assistance Fund shall provide preapprentices with stipends they receive that may vary depending on the occupation the individual is training for. Provides that the annual report shall include a buying plan for the specific goods and services the company intends to buy in the next 6 to 18 months that is either (i) organized by and reported at the level of each applicable North American Industry Classification System code, (ii) provided using a method, system, or description similar to the North American Industry Classification System, or (iii) provided using the major categories of goods and related services utilized in the company's procurement system, and including any procurement codes used by the company, to assist entrepreneurs and diverse companies to understand upcoming opportunities to work with the company, however, a utility shall not be required to include commercially-sensitive data, nonpublic procurement information, or other information that could compromise a utility's ability to negotiate the most advantageous price or terms. Provides that a utility-scale pilot project may consist of photovoltaic energy generation facilities located on one or more sites and may be installed or constructed in phases. Provides that upon approval of a rebate application, the retail customer shall no longer be entitled to receive any delivery service credits for the excess electricity generated by its facility and shall be subject to the Act's provisions concerning net electricity metering unless the owner or operator receives a rebate only for an energy storage device and not for the distributed generation device. Provides that provisions concerning a report on the infrastructure program and the performance-based formula rate and provisions concerning a participating utility prohibited from offering broadband services or the delivery of broadband services are not inoperative after December 31, 2022 for every participating utility. Provides that the provisions concerning what a participating utility is prohibited from providing (rather than offering) are inoperative after December 31, 2027 for every participating utility. Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that large GHG-emitting units including EGUs may temporarily continue emitting CO2e and copollutants (instead of greenhouse gases) after any applicable deadline specified in any of the provisions concerning EGUs and greenhouse gas-emitting units if it has been determined that ongoing operation of the EGU is necessary to maintain power grid supply and reliability or ongoing operation of large GHG-emitting unit that is not an EGU is necessary to serve as an emergency backup to operations. Effective immediately.